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...U.S.Army prepares to double its Air Corps by June, 1941 to 5,500 planes with pilots to man them, two Harvard graduates, now at Randolph Field, are scheduled to be transferred to Kelly Field for their final three months of training before they receive their wings...
...damages payable to the aggrieved. Having asked for such a law himself, labor-loving Governor Lehman was expected to sign it, after the Legislature disposed of final technicalities. Fearful of any & all curbs on unions, the State American Federation of Labor fought this one. So did A. Philip Randolph, Negro president of the Pull man Porters' Union, who sagely warned: "The Negro workers are part & parcel of all workers . . . and they cannot hope to gain equality within trade unions by legis lation." More militant Negroes hardly expected that the law would be effectively enforced, valued the step chiefly because...
Married. Woolworth Donahue, 27. "most eligible U. S. bachelor," grandson of 5-&-10?-store Founder Frank Winfield Woolworth; and Gretchen Wilson Hearst 26, divorced wife of Son John Randolph Hearst; in Palm Beach...
Brother Rat and a Baby (Warner Bros.) should prove embarrassing to Virginia Military Institute as the graduates from Brother Rat, Bing Edwards (Eddie Albert), Billy Randolph (Wayne Morris), Dan Crawford (Ronald Reagan), project their prankish adolescence into extramural life. In the absence of one Mr. Harper they move into his apartment, smash a priceless ship model, pilfer and pawn an invaluable Stradivarius, appropriate $200 Harper has left in Bing's care, finally burn up the apartment, for which Bing has forgotten to mail the insurance policy. "Anyway," says one prankster, "Mr. Harper still has his life." It is distinctly...
...Since 1895 only three big dailies have been born in Manhattan. All three were tabloid children of rich men, who could afford to spend millions nursing them to maturity. One (Bernarr Macfadden's Evening Graphic) died a-weaning. Two survive: Joseph Medill Patterson's Daily News, William Randolph Hearst's Daily Mirror...